Reading Time: 3 minutesBy Denise Billen-Mejia, MD (retired), Consulting Hypnotist If you live with chronic pain, you have probably been told — or at least made to feel — that something is wrong with you. That your body has broken down. That your brain is misfiring. That the pain is somehow your fault, or in your head, or something you simply have to manage. I want to suggest a different way of looking at it. Your brain has been working overtime. Here is what I mean by that. Pain is not…
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Why Your Body Stays Stuck Despite Doing Everything Right
Reading Time: 4 minutesBy Wendy Bjork, Founder of Hearts of Wellness | HeartsOfWellness.com You are taking the supplements, resting when you can. You are following the advice, attending the appointments, and doing your best to manage a body that keeps sending signals nobody seems to fully understand. And yet something stays stuck. The fatigue does not lift. The pain does not settle, the brain fog rolls in whether you slept well or not. If that is where you are right now, this is the conversation you have been waiting to find. I know…
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